26 Mar 08 - My friend Dan Hammer at ClimatePatrol.com has
addressed this breathless story about gullible warming in a wonderful
manner, so I'll let you read his words.

Bob,

I am honestly disgusted with CNN.com. On their home
page right now their big story is the collapse of a huge chunk of ice in
Antarctica as a result of worsening global warming. That is exactly how
they play this story out. But lets look at the reality of the situation.

It has been proven already that the planet has been
cooling for a number of years now. It is the very southern most part of
the planet that is leading the charge. Over the last three months the
very southern most part of the planet (as observed by satellite) has
been no warmer than -0.780 degrees c BELOW normal.

What about the size of this huge chunk? I mean if you listen to CNN.com
you'd think that something the size of Manhattan or 160 square miles was
significant. To a little tiny person it might be significant. But in
reality it is a non story. Antarctic ice covers 5,297,000 square miles.
This represents at most a loss of 0.00415% Huge? Not at all. If I were
to lose four one-thousandth of a percent of anything I'd pretty much
consider it to be a non existent loss.

Dan

* * *

I (Robert) would like to point out that much of
that 5,297,000 square miles of ice that Dan talks about is one- to
two-miles thick, whereas the chunk that broke off was only a few hundred
feet thick, which reduces the percentage to an even greater absurdity.

I'd also like to mention that the CNN
article said "It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been
there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years."

Doesn’t that imply that the edge of the Wilkins
ice shelf wasn’t there earlier thana few hundred years ago? Or
1,500 years ago? Wouldn’t that imply that it must have been even
warmer back then than it is today? Did we humans cause that warming,
too?

See also:
Misleading Reports about Antarctic Melting
Most
articles
make it sound as if all of
Antarctica
is melting, when
it's primarily the ice on
the Antarctic
Peninsula that's melting.
Here's a map of
Antarctica to show you what I mean.
See Misleading
Reports about Antarctic Melting.
.
Did earthquake trigger Antarctic ice
collapse?
27 Mar 08 - There's been little or no publicity about an earthquake
on the Pacific-Antarctic ridge 3930 km (2440 miles) SE of Wellington,
New Zealand on 17 March 08.
See Did earthquake
trigger Antarctic ice collapse?.
.Antarctic ice grows to record levels13 Sep 07 - While the Antarctic Peninsula area
has warmed
in recent years and ice near it diminished during the Southern
Hemisphere summer, the interior of Antarctica has been colder
and ice elsewhere has been more extensive and longer lasting,See Antarctic
ice grows to record levels.
.
Antarctic Ice Disappearing? Don’t you believe it27 Mar 08 - "It’s a naturally occurring event," says Hans
Schreuder,
"a MINOR event in world or Antarctic terms.
Here’s a map showing just how small an area it is."
http://www.ilovemycarbondioxide.com/Antarctic.html.